Creating & editing

Open any article and press Edit. Editing needs a signed-in, verified account — without one you can still open the editor and preview, just not save. (Template pages are the exception: they show their source read-only, since they’re maintained by sysops.)

The editor

You write HonoWiki markup in a code editor — syntax coloring, and problem-checking as you type. Prefer a plain textarea? The Editor selector under the edit box switches to Plain text; the choice is remembered per browser.

The assistant

Tables, infoboxes and dark-mode attributes are the parts of the markup people find tedious to type by hand. The editor’s ✦ Assistant button opens a panel that edits a selection for you:

Select the markup you want changed — a list to turn into a table, a table that needs another column, an infobox that should read correctly in dark mode.
Pick a quick action or type an instruction in plain words, then press Run. The panel shows what is happening while you wait — thinking, writing, checking — with the proposal appearing as it is written. A run usually takes a few seconds; Cancel stops it.
Read what comes back. Diff shows your selection against the proposal line by line; Preview shows the proposal rendered exactly as the page would show it.
Apply puts the proposal into the editor in place of your selection. Nothing is saved until you press Save changes as usual.

The proposal is checked by the engine before you see it — rendered with the real parser and run through the same problem-checker that gates saving. If something still looks wrong, the panel lists it and the button reads Apply anyway, so the decision stays yours. The assistant changes only the selected text and never invents facts: a new column it cannot fill is left empty for you.

Using the assistant needs a verified account, and there is a limit on how many requests one account can make per minute and per hour. If the button is missing, the wiki you are on has not enabled it.

Problems that block saving

The editor checks your text as you type and lists what it finds below the edit box — click a problem to jump to it. Saving is blocked until the list is empty. What it catches:

a {{Collapse}} with no {{Endcollapse}} (the panel would never close), and the reverse
unquoted named template parameters — write title="Rome", not title=Rome — and quotes left unterminated

It’s a safety net, not a full validator: most markup mistakes don’t block saving, they just render oddly. Preview is the real check — it runs your text through the same engine that renders articles, so what you see is what readers get.

Summaries and sections

Edit summary — one short line saying what you changed. It shows in the page’s history and the wiki-wide changes feed; future editors (including you) will thank you.
Section editing — signed-in readers get an [edit] link on every section heading, which opens the editor on just that section. Saving merges it back into the page.

Edit conflicts

If someone else saves while you’re editing, your save is refused — your text stays untouched in the editor. The notice tells you which revision landed; review it, then save again to apply your version on top.

Creating a page

Create page in the site menu (or the Create it button on a page that doesn’t exist) asks for a title, then drops you into the same editor. Title rules are in Getting started; if the title is already taken, the editor says so — open the existing page and edit it instead.